Vol. 21 No. 13 · 1 July 1999

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

John Upton

The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry by Sir William Macpherson
The Case of Stephen Lawrence by Brian Cathcart

Letters

Judith Butler, Mustapha Marrouchi, Andrew Rubin, Hamid Dabashi, John Byrne, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Linda Montague, Audrey Gillan, John Sweeney, Hugh Lyon, Tom Paulin, Nicholas Mann

Paul Farley

Two Poems

Edmund White

Gilbert & George: A Portrait by Daniel Farson

Christine Stansell

Representing Women by Linda Nochlin

Jenny Diski

Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and Morals by Laura Beatty
Véra (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage by Stacy Schiff

Ian Hacking

I See a Voice: A Philosophical History of Language, Deafness and the Senses by Jonathan Rée

Steven Shapin

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis

Mark Greenberg

The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie

Richard Fortey

Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History by William Ryan and Walter Pitman

James Wood

Canaan by Geoffrey Hill
The Truth of Love: A Poem by Geoffrey Hill

Jamie McKendrick

Eugenio Montale: Collected Poems 1920-54 translated by Jonathan Galassi

James Francken

Matyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane by Sarah Farmer

Dan Jacobson

The Collected Works of Bruno Schulz edited by Jerzy Ficowski

John Tranter

Poem: ‘Miss Proust’

Justine Jordan

Other Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith

Edward Said

The Right Set: The Faber Book of Tennis edited by Caryl Phillips

Paul Muldoon

Diary: Hiberno-English Shenanigans

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